Geopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011 / / John Marx [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Marx John
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 809/.93358
• Soggetto topico: Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Fiction - 21st century - History and criticism; Geopolitics in literature; Politics and literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the novel's administrative turn -- 1. Fiction after liberalism -- 2. How literature administers 'failed' states -- 3. The novelistic management of inequality in the age of meritocracy -- 4. Entrepreneurship and imperial politics in twentieth-century historical fiction -- 5. Women as economic actors in contemporary and modernist novels -- Postscript: the literary politics of being well attached.
• Sommario/riassunto: Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in Utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale. Marx shows how literature can make an important contribution to political and social sciences by creating a space to imagine and experiment with social organization.
• Altri titoli varianti: Geopolitics & the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011
• Titolo autorizzato: Geopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011
• ISBN: 1-139-36632-7; 1-107-23129-9; 1-280-64767-1; 9786613633729; 1-139-37891-0; 1-139-09715-6; 1-139-37605-5; 1-139-37748-5; 1-139-37206-8; 1-139-38034-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452029603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II